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Yannis Tzanetakis

@yannistzanetakis.bsky.social

Plant Virologist Advancing plant pathology and tackling emerging viral threats to agriculture. Frequent traveler, science communicator, and advocate for data-driven solutions in plant health. Views are my own and do not reflect those of my employer.

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🌱 Graduate Student Opportunity in Plant Virology – Starting January 2026 🌱 The Virology Lab and Arkansas Clean Plant Center (ACPC) at the University of Arkansas is seeking highly motivated graduate… |... 🌱 Graduate Student Opportunity in Plant Virology – Starting January 2026 🌱 The Virology Lab and Arkansas Clean Plant Center (ACPC) at the University of Arkansas is seeking highly motivated graduate st...

🌱 Graduate Student Opportunity in Plant Virology – Starting January 2026 🌱
For more information visit: www.linkedin.com/posts/ioanni...

23.09.2025 15:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Assistant Professor - Plant Pathology: Soil-borne diseases Current University of Arkansas System employees, including student employees and graduate assistants, need to log in to Workday via MyApps.Microsoft.com, then access Find Jobs from the Workday search ...

📢 Job alert: We’re hiring a soilborne pathogen expert in our department!
🗓️ Apply by August 8
📣 Help spread the word!

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12.06.2025 19:41 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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I believe in science

24.05.2025 00:05 — 👍 16847    🔁 3298    💬 497    📌 140
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Arkansas Clean Plant Center Leader Tzanetakis Honored as a Fellow of American Phytopathological Society Ioannis Tzanetakis, professor of plant virology and director of the Arkansas Clean Plant Center, was recently named a Fellow of the American Phytopathological Society. Tzanetakis has a dual appointmen...

Ioannis Tzanetakis, prof. of virology and Arkansas Clean Plant Center director, was named a Fellow of the American Phytopathological Society for his distinguished contributions to plant pathology: aaes.uada.edu/news/tzaneta...

Congrats, @yannistzanetakis.bsky.social!

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12.05.2025 14:36 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Tzanetakis Honored as Fellow of American Phytopathological Society url:https://news.uark.edu/articles/77418/tzanetakis-honored-as-fellow-of-american-phytopathological-society

The word is out…

02.05.2025 11:39 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Arkansas Clean Plant Center Leads Global Effort to Wipe ‘Phantom Agents’ from Pathogen Regulatory Lists Wiping “phantom agents” from a list of suspected plant pathogens would improve agricultural efficiency and food security by updating regulations on international shipment of pathogen-free plant materi...

I. E. Tzanetakis and more than 180 researchers from 40+ countries address the challenges of “phantom agents” in the latest Plant Disease Feature article: doi.org/10.1094/PDIS...

Read the press release from the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station to learn more: aaes.uada.edu/news/clean-p...

08.01.2025 15:48 — 👍 6    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 1
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Join our short course on High Throughput Sequencing starting May 13. Learn sequencing technologies, data analysis, and experimental design. Attend live or watch recordings.
 
Enroll now: bit.ly/3QVwfQG
 
#PlantDisease #HTS #Sequencing #PlantHealth #APSCourses

10.04.2025 21:12 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Just out "Making sense of the virome in light of evolution and ecology" doi.org/10.1098/rspb... from super ⭐ team @meganawallace.bsky.social @duckswabber.bsky.social @jemmageoghegan.bsky.social @ryanmimrie.bsky.social @eddieholmes.bsky.social @xavh.bsky.social in Proc B @royalsocietypublishing.org

02.04.2025 07:46 — 👍 52    🔁 22    💬 1    📌 2

Invisible vectors, visible impact: Our review www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... led by Tobiasz Druciarek dissects how eriophyoid mites drive emaravirus spread. We cover virus biology, detection tools, environmental spread factors, and control strategies vital to agriculture and forestry.

19.03.2025 13:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Agents/diseases caused by infectious agents previously misidentified, synonymized, or characterized and that now have a confirmed pathogen ID

Agents/diseases caused by infectious agents previously misidentified, synonymized, or characterized and that now have a confirmed pathogen ID

🌱 From Pant Disease: International researchers discuss ways to advance global germplasm exchange. Researchers call for removing “phantom agents” from regulations—pathogens lacking evidence or diagnostics. (M. Al Rwahnih)
▶️ apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/full/10....
#PlantPathology #Agriculture

06.03.2025 19:46 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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APS is committed to advocating for data-based science and a skilled, scientific workforce. The #APSPublicPolicy Board supports legislation and agency actions that advance scientific research, plant health and agricultural research initiatives, and evidence-based policies. #APSPPB

18.02.2025 20:25 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Redirecting

Efficient transfer of infectious clones to woody plants 🦠
Dodder (Cuscuta spp.) boosts virus transmission in woody plants, p-values of 0.005 to 4.09e-06! A game-changer for woody plant virology!

doi.org/10.1016/j.jv...

#PlantVirology #Dodder #InfectiousClones #Virology

@plantdisease.bsky.social

10.02.2025 17:19 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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